Showing posts with label Georgia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Georgia. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Georgia

Several months ago, The subject of the Financial Times's "Lunch with the FT" interview was the president of Georgia. Here is the link: "Lunch with the FT: Mikheil Saakashvili". The current conflict with Russia prompted me to re-read it, and this sentence by Gideon Rachman, the FT's foreign affairs columnist, caught my eye:

The Georgian president is impressive – energetic, intelligent and with strong liberal views but, I wonder, how long you can live like this without succumbing to megalomania?


You may find the rest of the article of interest.